Polish company Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG) have received as many as six loads of liquefied natural gas in May at the President Lech Kaczyński LNG Terminal. The record monthly number of deliveries is the result of the intensification of LNG imports in order to strengthen the country’s energy security.

The gas carrier Gaslog Westminster arrived at the terminal in Świnoujście, bringing 73,000 tonnes of LNG, which corresponds to 100 million cubic meters of natural gas after regasification. This is the sixth delivery that reached the gas terminal in May.

Never before has PGNiG received so many loads of liquefied natural gas in one month. The total volume of May deliveries amounted to 0.45 million tonnes of LNG, i.e. 620 million cubic meters of natural gas after regasification. This means that the amount of gas that was delivered in May to Poland by sea is equal to the volume consumed by all domestic consumers served by PGNiG for about 2.5 months in the spring and summer period.

Since the beginning of the year, PGNiG has received 20 loads of liquefied natural gas in Świnoujście. This is 1/3 more than in the same period last year. Increasing LNG imports is PGNiG’s response to the tense situation in the European gas market caused by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and restrictions on fuel supplies from the East.

Intensification of supplies to the gas terminal is possible thanks to the expansion of the terminal carried out by GAZ-SYSTEM SA. From this year, the regasification capacity of the installation amounts to 6.2 billion cubic meters per year, i.e. 1.2 billion cubic meters more than before. Having reserved the full terminal capacity, PGNiG is planning to use almost the entire available capacity of the installation this year.

In addition to six deliveries to Świnoujście, in May PGNiG also received a cargo of liquefied natural gas at the terminal in Klaipeda in Lithuania. Thanks to the Poland-Lithuania gas pipeline launched in May this year, most of the cargo delivered to Klaipeda was sent to Poland after regasification, and the remaining part was sent to the market of the Baltic states.

Adrian Andrzejewski